Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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Like they can travel up to 15 kilometers in a day if they feel like it.
So they're very capable and they're certainly active.
They're also, you know, navigating things kind of outside of that.
Like, you know, in a river system, it's not just water.
Like we're navigating sometimes waterfalls, you know, rocky areas.
Sometimes we need to go over land.
So yeah, they're busy.
I mean, I might be biased, but yes.
No, I think that they are.
You know, they have all these incredible features.
Like, yeah, I think they're amazing.
And like I said before, you know, it's a privilege to be able to work with them.
I didn't even know that.
This only came out within the last two years.
Someone kind of used these museum specimens to shine a UV light out and found that they glow like a
bluey kind of purpley tinge depending on where you're pointing your light and we don't like I don't really know the reason for that to be honest because we do see that in a lot of native Australian mammals like it's in our marsupials whether that's some way that these animals are communicating with each other whether it's something to do with predators whether it's because they're nocturnal
Like, I don't really know the mechanism behind that.
But I will admit we have, after that paper came out, we did purchase a UV light and we do tend to shine it at some platypus and see if we can see the pretty colors.
They don't make a lot of noises.
They do do like a bit of grunting, you know, if they're unimpressed with the situation.
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